Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century write by Alejandro de la Fuente. This book was released on 2011-02-01. Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local Cuban sources, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of the transformation of Havana into a vibrant Atlantic port city and the fastest-growing urban center in the Americas in the late sixteenth century. He shows how local ambitions took advantage of the imperial design and situates Havana within the slavery and economic systems of the colonial Atlantic.
Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution
Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution write by Sherry Johnson. This book was released on 2011. Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing
Beyond the Walled City
Beyond the Walled City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Walled City write by Guadalupe Garcia. This book was released on 2016. Beyond the Walled City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Once one of the most important port cities in the New World, Havana was a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. This book tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed and explores the relationship between colonial empire and urbanization in the Americas. Guadalupe García shows how the policing of urban life and public space by imperial authorities from the sixteenth century onward was explicitly centered on politics of racial exclusion and social control. She illustrates the importance of colonial ideologies in the production of urban space and the centrality of race and racial exclusion as an organizing ideology of urban life in Havana. Beyond the Walled City connects colonial urban practices to contemporary debates on urbanization, the policing of public spaces, and the urban dislocation of black and ethnic populations across the region"--Provided by publisher.
Spain's Men of the Sea
Spain's Men of the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spain's Men of the Sea write by Pablo Emilio Pérez-Mallaína Bueno. This book was released on 2005-03-31. Spain's Men of the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book should appeal to all aficionados of the romance of the sea as well as to specialists in Spanish and Latin American colonial history.--Benjamin Keen, author of A History of Latin America
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 write by David Wheat. This book was released on 2016-03-09. Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea and then Angola, contributed forced migrant populations with distinct experiences to the Caribbean. They played a dynamic role in the social formation of early Spanish colonial society in the fortified port cities of Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Panama City and their semirural hinterlands. David Wheat is the first scholar to establish this early phase of the "Africanization" of the Spanish Caribbean two centuries before the rise of large-scale sugar plantations. With African migrants and their descendants comprising demographic majorities in core areas of Spanish settlement, Luso-Africans, Afro-Iberians, Latinized Africans, and free people of color acted more as colonists or settlers than as plantation slaves. These ethnically mixed and economically diversified societies constituted a region of overlapping Iberian and African worlds, while they made possible Spain's colonization of the Caribbean.
